Since we never do those anymore, this is as close as a decent hand I could think of to do one, and I wanted to post a hand before EPT Baden starts on Sunday.

25/50 blinds to start the tournament, 10k starting stack, Day 1b of EPT Barcelona main event, 8k euro buy in.

For most of level 1, I was in the restroom feeling deathly ill, and evacuating my bowels like there was an air raid siren in my intestinal tract. I missed probably half the hands, and whenever I was at the table I looked like hell, and was sweating and looking very uncomfortable. I think I had 1 too many paellas.

So by 50/100 the table probably thinks I'm either some donkey satellite winner who is terrified and is panicing, or think I am crazy.

Finally after about 30 minutes into 50/100 my stomach feels fine and I am playing some poker. 2 to my left is a mega euro LAGtard, TerrorOfSweden. He is reraising or raising almost every single hand, NEVER folding to reraises once he has entered the pot, and his vpip is prob over 90%. He is completely fearless, and prob doesn't care if he loses in the first hour.

I have about 12k (ToS covers), and probably a relatively tight image thus far.

I open A J utg to 300, ToS makes it 850, folds back to me.

Fold, Call, RR?

99% of the forum will say call so I will say it for them.

Call please. 4-betting is bad. You're out of position. Call down on lots of boards.

Euro LAGtards. I can't wait for Monaco.

Call. I'm not a fan of building a big pot OOP with A/J. However, you are likely ahead.

Another thought - if ToS doesn't know that great and almighty Ansky, how can you BEST use your unusual table image in this hand? Lots of calls followed by a river push? Just tryin' to anticipate where this is going . . .

call but 4betting isnt that bad at all

Well, to play devils advocate, if I had to guess waht I was going to do post flop I'd say... It depends on what flops!

How does he play postflop?
Has he shown the ability to fold postflop after 3betting? How often is he 3betting vs. cold calling?

I'm assuming he's kind of bad, so call.

He's like crazy aggro and insane, but I wouldn't nec peg him as a station at all. I think he generally will have the ability to fold marginal hands post flop.

I'd probably call
but.....why not 4-bet, it'll slow him down a ton and makes are decision easier and our hand more playable post flop. especially for a person with Ansky's skill level post flop

LOL I wasn't tryin too hard to be a smartAss, but IMHO your unusual image is a tool to be considered in this hand . . .

id call and i would fold 0 flops

you want to c/c on 765 monotone? k54r? T96 2spades?

gonna get us in a lot of trouble if your mentaility is c/c any flop imo

yea we can c/r and bet/call too..

I just call. Seems like on balance your best prospect for making money with this hand will be picking off bluffs. If you over-represent by 4-betting pre-flop, it seems like that could only slow him down and make it worse for you to stack off with one pair, which you probably want to be doing against this guy.

call and play better than him postflop since you can and will